Laws of the Insect Hive

After continuing to communicate with the slime for a period of time, System discovered that in addition to moving and bouncing, there was a third command he could give the slime—splitting.

He can use spiritual messages to make slimes split on their own initiative.

System recalled the painstaking efforts to lure his old friend Slime to the ant's nest, and then collect the slime's gelatin when the slime and the ant fight were both lost.

But now it's just a few words from him.

When System transmits a spiritual message, the slime will follow System's instructions and split into two individuals of the same size.

As long as you continue to control the slime to split several times in a row, you will get small pieces of slime that he can easily fiddle with and eat it easily.

As for the remaining slimes, it won't take long for them to gather together according to their instincts.

...

System was just a few meters away from the basketball-sized slime, devouring the small pieces of slime formed by splitting.

The taste of this dark green slime is still rich in yogurt, which is better than the previous brown slime.

The improvement of his [Degeneration Growth] is also more obvious.

System felt that as long as he continued to eat these small pieces of gelatin a dozen times, his [Metamorphosis Growth] might be able to break the limit of level 13 and reach level 14.

After each molting, System would get the information of the next molting.

When he is in the second molting, he knows the third molting.

And now after the third molting, System also felt part of the information of the fourth molting, although the information was vague.

System had a vague feeling that when his [Metamorphosis Growth] reached level 17 or 18, he would get the specific conditions for the fourth molting.

System’s [intuition] gave System a peculiar feeling. The fourth molting seemed to bring about a bigger change to his body, but what it would be like, System had no idea. learned.

"Maybe I transformed into a magical life, relying on this fourth degeneration?"

System, who was eating slime gel, thought to himself.

As he continued to swallow the glue in the slime's body, System's abdomen gradually swelled.

It is not difficult to swallow this mass of gelatin, but System estimates that it will take half a day to completely digest and absorb this small mass of gelatin.

According to System's past experience of observing the brown slime, System felt that the speed at which he ate the slime's gel was three or four times faster, and it couldn't keep up with the speed of the slime's self-growth and recovery. .

That is to say, as long as winter doesn't come, he can ask for food that he can't finish from the slime every day.

After swallowing all the jelly, System used mental information to make the slime split again, and found a large leaf, and controlled the small group of slime jelly to jump on the leaf.

Using his tentacles to wrap the slime with leaves, System decided to pack the small group of slime gum away.

This nutrient-rich food that can promote [molting growth] is really good for Shava and ant larvae.

In the process of returning to the lair with the leaf wrapped in his tentacles, System recalled Shava's efforts to protect him, and the words he said because of being moved, he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed——

"As long as I'm here, I'll be your king."

At that time, he said those words when his mind was hot, and now that he thinks about it, he is still a little ashamed and regretful, but now, System does not intend to deny it.

Although he really denied it, and Shava wouldn't say anything, he wouldn't.

System's character was like that, once he made a promise, he would never go back on it.

Now that he has proclaimed himself king, he is the king, and he has to do something to his people, to be a king.

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When the slime was brought back to the temporary nest, the soldier ant Shava had just woken up. She seemed to smell the bloody smell of the mouse corpse and was eating the meat of the mouse.

The claws of the soldier ant Shava are very sharp, even System's claws after the third molting can't compare. With the claws, she easily tore the mouse's fur and bit the mouse's flesh and blood. .

It seemed that Shava's spirit had recovered a bit, but she didn't know whether she knew that the mouse was the culprit that maimed her in the first place.

After meeting System, Shava's attitude towards him was as kind as usual, and apparently did not alienate him because of the tentacle entanglement during the day.

It seems that he found the slime package that System wrapped around his tentacles. Shava sent a puzzled spiritual message to System: "King, what is that?"

System replied, "It's a slime wrapped in leaves, a kind of gelatinous creature. It tastes very good. Do you want to eat some?"

However, System soon discovered that Shava was not asking about the wrapping made of leaves, but the tentacles he used to wrap the leaves.

"King, what is this...?" Shava once again sent out a spiritual message, this time she moved to System's side and pressed the only remaining foot on System's tentacles.

System found that Shava's spiritual message seemed to reveal a strangeness.

"It should be a tentacle, like a finger, it can grasp objects." System replied.

Shava seemed to be very interested in his tentacles, and lightly rubbed his tentacles with his head.

After a while, Shava seemed to have made up her mind, and suddenly said to System: "King, it can be used, your... tentacles, can you wrap... around me again?"

"……Um?"

System, who was controlling the slime to split and gather, was slightly stunned. He finally found out what the inexplicable thing in Shava's previous spiritual message was.

Shava seems to be in love with his tentacles with special utility, and wants to continue the binding game with him.

"no!"

System refused Shava's request after a little thought. He didn't have any bad tastes in some aspects, and he evolved tentacles only because he wanted flexible fingers, not some special little game he wanted to play.

Hearing System's decisive refusal, Shava felt a sense of loss.

However, although Shava was born with wisdom, her feelings are very simple, and she will not hold on to something.

After sucking the slime's gelatin, Shava felt a sense of enjoyment. Obviously, this gelatinous food is very suitable for her appetite.

She quickly forgot about System's tentacles with special functions.

Seeing the appearance of Shava eating the jelly, System nodded. He controlled the slime's jelly to continue to divide, and then distributed these jelly that retained a certain amount of activity to many ant larvae.

Except for a few ant larvae who did not like this gelatin very much, the vast majority of ant larvae liked this nutrient-rich gelatin food.

Watching these ant larvae eat the slime's glue, System noticed that one of the two male and female ant larvae he was particularly concerned about was feeding at an unusual rate.

In terms of size, this ant larva is also much larger than other ant larvae that hatched at the same time.

This ant larva apparently has a digestive ability that other ant larvae do not have.

Seeing the fast digestion speed of this ant larva undoubtedly provided System with a new idea.

As the saying goes, sharpening knives is not a mistake in chopping wood. If he wants to grow quickly, compared to other miscellaneous abilities, the first thing he needs to improve is his digestion ability!